Writing from the Margins: Geographies of Identity, Pedagogy, and Power

Authors

Henry A. Giroux, Pennsylvania State University
Peter McLaren, Chapman UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1992

Abstract

"The excess of language alerts us to the ways in which discourse is inextricably tied not just to the proliferation of meanings, but also to the production of individual and social identities over time within conditions of inequality. As a political issue, language operates as a site of struggle among different groups who for various reasons police its borders, meanings, and orderings. Pedagogically, language provides the self-definitions upon which people act, negotiate various subject positions, and undertake a process of naming and renaming the relations between themselves, others, and the world."

Comments

This article was originally published in Journal of Education, volume 174, issue 1, in 1992.

Recommended Citation

Giroux, H. A. , & McLaren, P. (1992). Writing from the margins: Geographies of identity, pedagogy, and power. Journal of Education, 174(1): 7-30.

Peer Reviewed

1

Copyright

Trustees of Boston

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